Worked === Intended outcome achieved At the point when the lockdown started, the intended outcome was likely to catch the suspect without any more death, injur

Worked === Intended outcome achieved At the point when the lockdown started, the intended outcome was likely to catch the suspect without any more death, injury or destruction. It worked. You can speculate as to whether it would have also worked with a different approach, but you can't say the selected approach didn't work.